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Description: The term ‘dispreferred’ is used in conversation analytic research on preference to describe how people systematically time/position and design their social actions in interaction when there are relevant alternatives possible. ‘Dispreferred’ has been used to refer to: (i) an action that does not structurally align or cooperate with a prior conversational turn’s initiated course of action/project/activity; and (ii) the design of an action—both sequence-initiating (FPP), and sequence-responding (SPP)—with delay(s), speech dysfluencies, and other mitigating features including accounts, appreciations, apologies, qualifications and/or uncertainty or hesitation markers.